When amino acids are added to the culture of Bacillus polymyxa growing under the conditions of active spore formation, the rate of polymyxin biosynthesis and the quantity of spores being formed decrease. All cells in the population start to produce spores under these conditions, but only some of them pass through all of the differentiation stages. Most of the cells remain in the state of prospores. Some cells which have started to differentiate are characterized by ultrastructural anomalies, do not form prospores and undergo early lysis.
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January 2025
Institute of Vegetable, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Graduate T&R Base of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
strain PJH16, isolated and tested by our team, suppresses cucumber wilt as an efficient biocontrol agent. For further investigation, the strain has been combined with two other ( VJH504 and JNF2) to enhance biocontrol ability, which formed high-efficiency microbial agents in the current study. The methodological target taken is based on achieving the optimal growth conditions of the combined microbial agents; hence, the medium composition and culture conditions were optimized through a single-factor test, orthogonal test and response surface methodology.
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Department of Paper Science & Engineering, College of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
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January 2025
Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8555, Japan.
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College of Horticulture, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, PR China.
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